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The Get Up Kids: Automatic (video)

There are Rules, the Get Up Kids’ fifth LP (out now on Quality Hill), may show an emo collective that’s no longer a group of “kids” in the chronological sense; after all, this is their first release since 2005. But the recently reunited quintet demonstrate a sense of energetic vigor that would be the envy of many a twenty-something band. What’s more, they’ve crafted a collection of songs of abundant melodic appeal: hooks that fly by quickly yet remain in your memory long afterwards. The tightly knit arrangements and edgy sound world are further evidence that emo needn’t be a throwback genre – and that these kids are much better than “all right.”